List of synonyms from "derivation" to synonyms from "descriptive"
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Definition of the day : « descending »
- adj moving down
- Descending this, he went forth with her into the dark and silent night.
- Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- After descending the front steps he stopped, as if to consider the way he should take.
- Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
- Kirkwood reconnoitered through the window, while the driver was descending.
- Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance
- But, by the time he reached the pavement, the inmates were descending.
- Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood
- These men are striking against the descending authority from the Royal House.
- Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings
- In her wrapper she ran out into the hallway and found him descending the stairs.
- Extract from : « Alice Adams » by Booth Tarkington
- White Fang sprang clear, just in time to escape the descending blow.
- Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
- Descending again to the bed-room, I set to work with my tools.
- Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
- Now that they were descending the slope, he saw where the water was.
- Extract from : « Flamedown » by Horace Brown Fyfe
- Descending to the bank of the river, he called, crying out as Panaumbe had done.
- Extract from : « Aino Folk-Tales » by Basil Hall Chamberlain